In this striking volume, it is clear that Joan fell victim to more than an era’s intolerance. But read Joan of Arc for what it tells you about the world in which the subject lived and the half-millennium of culture that has continued to mythologize her.
She is too skilled a prose writer, too good a storyteller, too alert to passions and the human heart to produce a work that ever flags. “It is impossible for Harrison to write an uninteresting book. Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cleopatra “Working from trial records and modern literature, the Bible and Bresson, Harrison marshals all the forces. The result is sumptuous, as rich and radiant as Joan’s (apocryphal) golden cloak.” awes us with her incisive intelligence, her fierce curiosity, her literary prowess.” A layered portrait not only of Joan’s life, but of her times. It is Joan’s rambunctious humanity as much as her divinity that makes her powerful, both for modern audiences and historians.” - The New York Times Book Review “It remains, after nearly 600 years, a story to break your heart. Harrison superbly teases out the politics and paradoxes of the Maid of Orleans’ wildly improbable saga.” - Elle
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